Tag: K-12 education
With schools everywhere suspended, an education expert answers 4 questions about...
Jon Pedersen, University of South Carolina
Most of the school systems that shut their doors due to the COVID-19 outbreak initially said these closures would...
America’s poorest children won’t get nutritious meals with school cafeterias closed...
Thurston Domina, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Schools aren’t only places where kids learn. They are also places where kids eat.
Thanks to the...
Online learning will be hard for kids whose schools close –...
Jessica Calarco, Indiana University
Public and private schools across the nation are closing their doors as everyone scrambles to protect themselves from the COVID-19 viral...
Video of 6-year-old girl’s arrest shows the perils of putting police...
F. Chris Curran, University of Florida
When states like Florida pass laws to put more police officers in schools, the idea is to keep kids...
Violence and other forms of abuse against teachers: 5 questions answered
Eric M. Anderman, The Ohio State University; Dorothy Espelage, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Linda A. Reddy, Rutgers University; Ron Avi Astor,...
Why it’s unclear whether private programs for ‘troubled teens’ are working
Heather E. Mooney, Wayne State University
I first became interested in what I’ve learned is called the “troubled teen industry” more than 20 years ago,...
Why hip-hop belongs in today’s classrooms
Nolan Jones, Mills College
When Cassie Crim, a high school math teacher in Joliet, Illinois, introduced herself to her advanced algebra students in 2017, she...
Teaching kids how to make guitars can get them hooked on...
Mark French, Purdue University
The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work.
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I’m part of a team of professors and high...
EXPLORING NATURE
The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states...
Jennifer Morgan, Tufts University
Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil...
